Will of James Holmes

of Dover, Kent

I give desire and bequeath all the real and personal Estate to which I be entitled at the time of my decease unto my son Burvill Holmes absolutely but as to estates vested in me upon trust or by way of Mortgage subject to the equities affecting the same respectively. And I appoint the said Burvill Holmes sole Executor of this my will hereby revoking all other testamentary writings

In witness whereof I have hereunder set my hand this sixteenth day of August one thousand eight hundred and fifty.
Jas Holmes

Signed by the said Testator as his last Will and Testament in the presence of us present at the same time who at his request in his presence and in the presence of each other have subscribed our names as witnesses
Thos. B. Coleman Alfred Coleman Clerks to Messrs. Hennett and Son

The before registered Will of James Holmes deceased was proved the Eleventh day of June 1852 Before the Reverend John Pechey Francis Clerk Surrogate of the Worshipful Travers Steviss Doctor of Laws Commissary General of the City and Diocese of Canterbury lawfully constituted by the Oath of Burvill Holmes Son of the deceased the Sole Executor named in the said Will he being first sworn well and truly to perform the same

Notes:
James Holmes was christened 6th June 1777, s. of James and Elizabeth Holmes at St. Mary the Virgin, Dover.
James married Maria Burvill 24th September 1800 at St. Mary, Walmer, Kent.
Children:
11/02 1801 C William Burtill
27/01 1802 C James Manger
25/12 1803 C Maria Barville
03/03 1805 C William Burville
28/10 1806 C Burville
19/06 1808 C Henry
19/09 1815 C Edward John Joseph
Burville Holmes 22, bachelor of Dover, married Emma Hutchinson, of St. George, Canterbury, at St. George the Martyr, Canterbury on 22nd July 1829, and they had many children in Dover.

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